Saturday 20 June 2009

No 9564, Saturday, 20 Jun 09, Gridman

Welcome back Gridman, some annotations elude me
ACROSS
1 - Therefore the paper’s to see where one can hit easily (4,4) - {SO}{FT} SPOT
5 - Stopped hundred and relaxed (6) - C{EASED}
9 - Withdrew from an arrangement — in tears? (5,3) - CRIED OFF [CD]
10 - Hardy was this actor’s partner (6) - LAUREL [CD]
12 - Nice at last to study in a heavenly place (4) - {E}{DEN}
13 - It holds the laundry from falling off line (7,3) - CLOTHES PEG [CD]
15 - Can be easily won over without a Frenchman’s help (6) - (-a-m){ENABLE}
17 - Sweet treat for the fellow with whom you met at last (5) - {DON}{U}{T}
20 - Emotion attains a different range (5) - ANGER*
21 - With which one’s struck when one is marvellously impressed (6) - WONDER [CD]
24 - Not that this abstainer doesn’t quench his thirst with liquids (3-7) - NON-DRINKER [CD]
27 - Girl doesn’t begin to get the atmosphere (4) - (-l)AURA
29 - Say further it’s a very soft conclusion (6) - A{PP}{END}
30 - One Hindu absolute among the old is in turmoil (8) - A{GITA}TED* or is it AG{I}{TAT}ED if so what is TAT (Addendum - AG{I}{TAT}ED} is the right answer see the link for meaning of TAT - Thanks to Shuchi for the explanation on her blog)
31 - Relatives recreate scene about India’s capital (6) - N{I}ECES*
32 - Impressions from noise spread around telegraphic signal (8) - E{DIT}IONS* DIT from DIT-DAH of morse code
DOWN
1 - Bag for loose cash with alien (6) - SACH*{ET}
2 - Craze about wild lie was unsuccessful (6) - FA{ILE*}D
3 - Team — not something to be taken objectively (4) - SIDE [DD]
4 - Refuse of a season in the U.S. left out (5) - OF{FAL(-l)}
6 - Remove from memory periods in extreme sufferance (5) - ERA{S}{E}
7 - Just managing to pass nonsense in praise (8) - S{CRAP}ING
8 - Agent with scrap about Georgia (8) - DELE{GA}TE
11 - Scattered right on the way up in the news somehow (6) - S{TR<-}EWN*
14 - King to hurry up with wooden ball (4) - K{NAR<-}
16 - Fiddling actress on fly (6) - {BO}{WING}
17 - Deer performs (4) - DOES [DD]
18 - Important volunteers not out to keep (8) - {MAIN}{TA}{IN}
19 - Again turn to pages close to verse for poetic inspiration (8) - AGANI*{PP}{E}
22 - On the 1st of January ousts set in a careful manner (4,2) - {J}{UST SO*}
23 - Busmen’s leader’s hands off industrial actions in India (6) - {B}ANDHS*
25 - Line after taking bottom off change (5) - (-ar)RANGE ? (Addendum - (-rear)(RANGE) Thanks to Chaturvasi's comments at Shuchi's blog)
26 - With advantage, copper played a cricket stroke (5) - EDGED [DD] Annotation not clear, what is Copper doing here (Addendum - {EDGE}{D} See comments below for discussion on this stroke)
28 - ‘Leave as it was’ instruction on the proof (4) - STET [CD]

15 comments:

  1. With advantage, copper played a cricket stroke (5)
    EDGE D
    D=PENNY (COPPER COIN)

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  2. Bhargav,
    Copper by itself cannot draw the inference to Copper coin

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  3. See Chambers
    copper... a coin, made originally of copper or bronze;...

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  4. That's true but we also have 'or bronze', so some indication of a coin also would have settled the issue

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  5. 14ac: Definition-wise KNAR may be correct, but in the light of wordplay, the ans needs to be revised, I think.

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  6. Both KNAR and KNUR have the same meaning

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  7. What I was trying to say was 'to hurry up' can only give NUR (rev. of 'run'), not NAR (rev. of 'ran', which would require 'hurried up').

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  8. In 26ac, while in wordplay 'copper' gives D, in surface reading it means a policeman - who can be imagined to have played a cricket stroke. The use of 'coin' would mar the surface reading.

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  9. I am not nitpicking but with due apologies to Gridman, 'edged' cannot be defined as a cricket stroke! It is a mishit in fact and not there in the definitions of a stroke, see
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batting_(cricket)

    Yes surface reading wise adding coin would mar it.

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  10. While holding no brief (branded or otherwise, white or coloured) for Gridman, I, who have wielded no cricket bat all his life, can only quote Chambers:
    edge to strike with the edge of the bat
    Whether 'edging' really comes under a 'cricket stroke' (such as a lofty sixer or hook or pull or sweep or whatever) I will leave it to players. I will only say if 'block' can be a stroke, can't edging be?
    As I said I am no expert. I watched IPL cricket more for the cheerleaders - in which department ICCWorld Twenty20 can take some tips from Mallya.

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  11. 19 dn - Again turn to pages close to verse for poetic inspiration (8) - AGANI*{PP}{E}

    Could you please explain how you got "e" from verse?

    Thanks,
    -Kelvin

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  12. Hi Kelvin,
    Again turn = AGANI*
    pages = PP
    close to verse = last letter of verse = E
    for = connector
    poetic inspiration = definition = AGANIPPE

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  13. I will only say if 'block' can be a stroke, can't edging be?

    Block is a deliberate attempt, whereas edge is a result of a failed stroke.

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  14. Should read as:

    "I will only say if 'block' can be a stroke, can't edging be?" - C Vasi.

    [I don't know how to change fonts and their styles, so the inverted commas.]

    Block is a deliberate attempt, whereas edge is a result of a failed stroke

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